“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement
Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it communicates, and its role in society. Now with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century, this “lucid and sweeping” (
Boston Globe) narrative explores the tensions that have sustained opera over four hundred years: between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to change the viewer— physically, emotionally, intellectually—with its enduring power.
Om författaren
Roger Parker, professor of music at King’s College London, writes on opera and music in London. He is the author of Leonora’s Last Act and Remaking the Song and was a founding coeditor of the Cambridge Opera Journal. He lives in Hampshire.
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Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 576 ● ISBN 9780393089530 ● Filstorlek 124.8 MB ● Utgivare W. W. Norton & Company ● Land US ● Publicerad 2015 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 7467767 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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